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Top News: E-Tail Spending Skyrockets | Google Defense | "Do Not Track" Looms | AOL Keeping Publications

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Mobile Computing: 5 smartphone trends at Mobile World Congress. More feds ditch BlackBerrys. Privacy: New Mozilla browser add-on visualizes who is tracking you online.   [...]

The Impact of the PayPal Brand, Both Online and Off

Offering a PayPal option on a website can increase lifted average order value and reduce cart abandonment, writes Peter Borden at Monetate.com. Borden helped a client experiment with the PayPal button to see if it increased traffic. "Adding this simple reassurance to product detail pages not only lifted average order value by 1.03%, but it also reduced cart abandonment by 1.21%." Not a huge lift, he acknowledged  [...]

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Social Media: Facebook timeline lands in New Zealand. Search: Yahoo updates Search BOSS with more developer tools. Mobile Marketing: MoPub to   [...]

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Top News: Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL's ad plan | Walmart acquires OnRiot | Windows 8

Online Ad Market: Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft band together for ad plan. Walmart acquires OneRiot. Outsourcing license frenzy   [...]

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Online Ad Market: Ad agencies brace for slowdown. Ecommerce: Amazon in talks to launch digital-book library. Can a marriage of AOL and Yahoo   [...]

Top News: Yahoo to buy startup for premium ad sales | Millennial Media in talks about IPO | Twitter's permission change frustrates developers | Mobile handset sales up 19%

Online Ad Industry: Yahoo to buy startup to boost premium ad sales. Mobile Marketing: Millennial Media said to be in talks with banks about IPO as mobile ads surge.   [...]

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Welcome to the Next Phase of Social Media Analytics, Wal-Mart Style

Kosmix is the developer of Tweetbeat Firsthand, a plug-in that scans the Internet for references to prominent people or organizations that have Twitter accounts and then provides readers of those pages with their latest tweets. The company is being acquired by Wal-Mart but, surprisingly to some social media tech aficionados, Tweetbeat Firsthand appears to be almost an afterthought - at least in terms of a social marketing application for the company. Rather, Wal-mart is acqu  [...]

Amazon Return Process Patent Points to New Era in Online Gift Giving

Amazon has received a patent for a process that would allow people to return gifts more easily – essentially, before they are even received. The patent would allow users to indicate that they wanted to convert all gifts from a certain friend or relative – the Washington Post dubs her "poor Aunt Mildred" in its description of the patent – before they are sent. Ot  [...]

Will iPhone 4 Usher in New M-Commerce Era?

Judging from the lines - not to mention Apple's and AT&T's back end processes getting stampeded by the preorder crush - the iPhone 4 is not only here but it is wildly popular. One group watching the frenzy for the devices are retailers. The iPhone 4 comes equipped with features - longer battery life, the new screen, and the ability to multitask - that could propel mobile commerce into the mainstream, some have speculated. "Extended battery life will help m-commerce for the simple reason that   [...]

Procter & Gamble Goes Live with eStore; Marketing Insights to Come

Procter & Gamble's eStore is open to the general public after months of testing. But P&G - whose portfolio of brands includes Tide detergent, Pampers diapers, and Olay skin cream - did not get into e-tailing to merely sell its products to consumers. Rather, the site, which is operated by PFSweb, is meant to be a learning lab for P&G - one that will hopefully help its retail partners sell more products. In short, it wants to figure out what works best in d  [...]

Entertainment Weekly App Tries Dual Revenue Stream

Entertainment Weekly has launched an app for the iPad that is generating a dual revenue stream without charging users but, for now, not offering full content from the print edition. E-commerce Model The app reproduces its weekly 'Must List' of recommended movies, TV, books, and music, and offers users the opportunity to purchase them via integration with iTunes, Amazon and Fandango, according to AdAge. The  [...]

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eBay Launches Rainforest Preservation Marketing Efforts

eBay has launched two green initiatives to position itself as a conservationist in the eyes of consumers. The online marketplace has unveiled a new green shopping hub that will help consumers find millions of green products, and launched its eBay Green Team Challenge that commits the online giant to save up to a quarter of a million acres of rainforest for consumers who reuse,   [...]

Understanding Local Listing Sites as Google Changes the Game

With little fanfare or formality Google has opened - widely - the definition of what it considers a 'review' for its Places Pages. The search engine is apparently using its newly-implemented sentiment analysis to reaching across hyperlocal blogs, local portals and news sites to retrieve blog entries, general editorial reporting and even blog comments to use as reviews,   [...]

P&G Launches eStore to Test Marketing Concepts

Procter & Gamble is launching a new ecommerce "learning lab" that the packaged goods giant says will test concepts and programs that can be reapplied across P&G’s retail partners in the hopes of growing consumer affinity for P&G brands and ultimately increasing sales. The eStore is coming out now in beta with 5,000 invited consumers; it will roll out broadly in the U.S. in March or April, the company   [...]

New Index Ranks Facebook Fans' Fashion Choices

A new index that tracks the popularity of fashion brands on Facebook has joined the growing number of social media marketing and measurement tools. Called the Stylophane Facebook Fashion Index, it was developed by Stylophane e-commerce provider, which also tracks the most popular brands on Facebook each month. Launched last week, the Fashion Index updates daily and shows the percentage increase or decrease in th  [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 01/12/10

Ad Technology: Real time price changes reflected in banner ads. Consumer opinions online seen as curse, not gift. Commission Junction vets   [...]

Abandoned Shopping Carts Capture Link Between Discounts/Conversions

As deal-seeking becomes an ingrained behavior among consumers, shopping cart abandonment data is providing new insight into conversions, according to Charles Nicholls, chief strategy officer with SeeWhy. Namely it is highlighting the growing link between discounts offered and conversions, he says. Since Black Friday and Cyber Monday online sales have remained h  [...]